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Chemsex and slamming “suffused with romantic, emotional and communal attachments”

The study is based on ethnographic immersion gay two gay dating sites and 25 in-depth interviews with gay men who use drugs in Paris and Lyon. The men were aged between 23 and While 14 men were involved in slamming injecting drugs in a sexual contextthe other eleven men engaged in other aspects of the chemsex scene.

Several of the interviewees had been diagnosed with HIV.

Studies with heterosexual couples who inject drugs have shown that the act of injecting can be an intimate slammers, with the sharing of a syringe mature50plus as a sign of trust and love.

These relations are highly gendered: In the interviews with gay men slammers in chemsex and slamming, couple life slammers romantic relationships were recurrent themes.

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For gay men, initiation into injection drug use followed a breakup or the beginning of an intense relationship with a drug-injecting partner. He gives the example of Gaspard, a year-old engineer who had had two periods of particularly hazardous drug use — one early in his sex life when he found out that he was HIV positive, and another following a romantic breakup when he started injecting drugs.

A lot of partying, mainly. And back to using chems but now, with an increasingly active search for them, a desire to try out new things and all that.

Two weeks after the breakup, Gaspard met his current boyfriend at a sex party, showing that such gatherings can lead to encounters that are not only sexual. Moreover Gaspard credited gay boyfriend with keeping his feet on ground and placing limits on their drug use.